The sickening page – Hunting Runs In My Blood – has more than 3,000 members.

It contains scores of photos of bloodied animal corpses.

Members upload photos or videos of their dogs “coursing” animals. Many pose with the dismembered remains.

Others brag about defying laws which ban hunting with dogs on land they do not own.

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SICK: The members share pictures of the kills

“Poaching is the way forward”

Ian Norton

Member Ian Norton posted: “Poaching is the way forward gta be init to win it lol.”

An arrogant hunter called Keith Greene said: “All land is my land...ill hunt any mans land permission or not and if they try to stop me or do anything to my animals ill break there necks.”

And Michael David wrote: “That feeling you get when you are out with a mate in the car with the dogs in the back...

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ARROGANT: Members boast of the feeling they get from illegally hunting

“Then you come round a bend and see a hair [hare], deer, ginger rabbit and you say yur mate pull up there and the dogs are strat [straight] over the wall on the chase...

“And you know you could get seen but at that minit you could not give a f*** cos your hard work and dedication is doing what it does best on that f***er, the life of a poacher.”

Members also laugh at anti-poaching signs erected by police, with one sneering “Lol [these signs] let’s everyone know that theirs plenty of hares in that area!!!”

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COURSING: The members go out with their dogs in search for animals to hunt

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GRAPHIC: Some of the pictures show mutilated animals

Yesterday Tom Quinn, of the League Against Cruel Sports, said: “It takes a certain kind of person who is prepared to see an animal killed for the fun of it, so I’m not entirely surprised to learn that they are boasting about it on social media.

“Maybe they think people will be impressed but I’m guessing most will be appalled. It’s a sick sport for sick people.”

And Elisa Allen from animal rights group PETA said: “Coursing is an atrocity that should have no place in modern Britain or any ethically developed society, which is why it has rightly been banned.”